"He was at a grocery where a shopper saw him and recognized him from a photo in a news report,'' Lyons said.

There was no word on how ended up in Dickinson, Lyons said.

Kidd was still in the white prison clothes he wore when he escaped from the van that was carrying him from the Ramsey I prison unit in Rosharon to a prison hospital at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Lyons said.

Kidd was in the custody of Dickinson police late today, but prison officials were on their way to Galveston County to pick him up, Lyons said. She said Kidd likely will be charged with felony escape.

Kidd had been in prison since January 2002 and would have been eligible for parole in next September.